Don’t Look Now, But We Already Know Who Will Win the Election—And It’s Not Who You’d Expect

Moody’s Analytics has correctly predicted every presidential election since 1980. It’s one of the world’s best financial institutions, and it uses a model that takes into account every variable that’s relevant in the presidential race. It predicted the person who will win the 2016 election back in July 2015 and hasn’t wavered since.

That person?

Hillary Clinton.

Yes Hillary Clinton, the one facing investigation by the FBI, the one whose favorability ratings are in the negatives, the one who can’t unite her own party, let alone the country.

A member of the Western Kentucky Young Democrats asked Clinton to sign a Bernie button. HRC obliged. pic.twitter.com/KgUvkNm527

— Dan Merica (@merica) May 16, 2016

If the model has it right, we’re on a slow march to the inevitable coronation of our new Clinton-in-Chief. The model takes into account Obama’s high favorability ratings, which suggest that the country will want four more years of the same party instead of change to the GOP.

“Thanks Obama.”